1 volume (approximately 170 leaves) ; 27 cm

This is the 21st volume in a set of scrapbooks documenting the life and anthropological work of William Henry Holmes, and serves as the general table of contents for the collection

Devised title

Binder's title: Random records

Typewritten manuscript, with the text on the recto side of the leaves, only

William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) was an anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, and geologist, who spent much of his career affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. He studied art under Theodore Kauffman, and went on to work as a scientific illustrator with Smithsonian staff. In 1872, he was appointed artist-topographer to the United States survey of the territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden, and in 1874 was appointed assistant geologist. He went on to work with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), until returning to the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum (USNM). Holmes eventually became head curator of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology and Director of the National Gallery of Art

Photocopies of the tables of contents from the sixteen individual volumes are inserted at the end of the volume

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